Papers by Ngo Vu Minh
XTRA: Cross-Lingual Topic Modeling with Topic and Representation Alignments (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | XTRA aims to uncover shared semantic themes across languages . previous methods have achieved improvements in topic diversity but struggle to ensure high topic coherence and consistent alignment across languages. |
| Approach: | a new framework unifies Bag-of-Words modeling with multilingual embeddings is proposed to address this problem . XTRA introduces two core components: (1) representation alignment and (2) topic alignment to enforce cross-lingual consistency. |
| Outcome: | XTRA outperforms baselines in topic coherence, diversity, and alignment quality on multilingual corpora. |